Salt-shaker.



PATENTED APR. 1'7 1906.

m m m N m 0 R GILBERT v SALT SHAKER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 14.1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEioE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed October 14, 1905. Serial No. 282,845.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. GILBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Salt Shakers,of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a shaker for use in asalt-cellar which is simple, cheaply constructed, easily inserted in thecellar, and which will not only agitate the salt therein, but willprevent the salt from adhering to the top, bottom, or sides of thecellar. I accomplish this object by means of the device described hereinand shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a centralvertical section of a salt-cellar with my improved shaker therein, theshaker being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of acellar with my improved shaker therein, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 2looking downwardly as indicated by the arrow-heads thereonj In thedrawings, A is the body of the cellar, and B is the top thereof.Rotatably mounted in the body of the cellar is the shaker 0, providedwith outwardly-extending scraperarms D. The main stem of the shaker isprovided with a plurality of outwardly-projecting scraper-arms havingupwardly-proj ecting scraper ends, as shown. These scraper-arms are disosed along on either side of the stem equi istant apart, the arms on oneside being so arranged that the scraper-arms on the opposite sideproject outwardly from a point on the stem midway between arms on theother side of the stem, and thereby provide means whereby the entireinner walls of the cellar are scra ed, the scrapers on one side scrapingone-ha f of the inner wall of the cellar and the scrapers on the otherside scraping the balance of the wall, the arms of the top and bottomscrapers serving to scrape the top and bottom of the cellar,respectively. A thumb nut E is tightly screwed upon a screw-threadedprojection C on the main stem, by means of which the shaker is rotatedin the cellar. In all salt-shakers of which I am aware no provision hasbeen made to scrape the entire inside of the cellar. By mounting thesescraper-arms alternately on either side of the main stem of the shakerprovision is made to scrape all of the inside of the cellar as well asagitate the salt in the cellar.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A shaker for a salt-cellar adapted to scrape the entire inner surface ofthe cellar, comprising a central longitudinal stem rotatively mounted inthe cellar and having an end projecting outwardly therethroughthe stemhaving on opposite sides thereof scraperarms, the said scraper-armsbeing mounted at points on the stem equidistant from the points wherethe arms on the opposite side are mounted, the said scraper-arms beingprovided with upturned scraper portions in length at least one-half thedistance between the scraper-arms, the upper arm havin a scraping fitwith the top wall of the cellar and the lower arm having a scraping fitwith.

the lower wall of the cellar.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my namethis 6th day of October, 1905.

CHARLES R. GILBERT.

